Barnes & Thornburg Adds to Team

Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added Randolph Rompola to its government finance team. He is a public and municipal finance lawyer and a partner at the firm's South Bend office. Previously, was a long-time partner at Faegre Baker Daniels, Rompola has experience serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and borrower’s counsel in a wide variety of taxable and tax-exempt public finance transactions. This includes helping clients negotiate incentives for financing and construction of major economic development projects. Additionally, he serves as bond counsel in conduit financings for healthcare, educational institutions, senior living and multifamily housing projects and represents public and private clients in economic development matters, including public-private partnership projects and real estate and zoning issues. Rompola is a board member of the United Way of St. Joseph County, Indiana Soccer Association, Indiana Soccer Foundation, Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Inc., South Bend Education Foundation and the Scholarship Foundation of St. Joseph County. He has been named to The Best Lawyers in America for public finance law since 2011, including being named Lawyer of the Year in 2014. Rompola earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Notre Dame Law School, where he was symposium editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. He earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from King’s College.

Like all schools in Indiana, we were disheartened at the ILEARN results for school year 2018. We would like to raise several questions concerning this test as it relates to college and career readiness for our students. The annual Indiana Statewide Assessment (this year’s ILEARN) has been developed to evaluate college and career readiness at all levels tested. We are very troubled by our lack of understanding of what indicators in the test evaluate...

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Like all schools in Indiana, we were disheartened at the ILEARN results for school year 2018. We would like to raise several questions concerning this test as it relates to college and career readiness for our students. The annual Indiana Statewide Assessment (this year’s ILEARN) has been developed to evaluate college and career readiness at all levels tested. We are very troubled by our lack of understanding of what indicators in the test evaluate...

Citing overwhelming demand for Chick-fil-A’s food and services, Purdue University has announced it will allow the restaurant to open on campus. The university has been at the center of a debate over the Georgia-based food chain.

A new study from the Washington D.C.-based Urban Land Institute suggests several opportunities for growth along the Mount Comfort Corridor in Hancock County. The study identifies four "nodes" along the 13-mile stretch that could eventually include town gateways, walkable town centers and quality of life amenities to attract businesses and residents.

The Red Bull Air Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, originally scheduled for October, has been canceled as a result of Red Bull's decision to discontinue the Air Race World Championship following the 2019 season. The company says the races scheduled between June and September in Russia, Hungary and Japan will run as planned.

The chief executive officer of California-based ALOM says in the two years since opening a fulfillment and distribution hub in Indianapolis, the facility has been one of the company's biggest successes. The supply chain management company this week cut the ribbon on its expanded 160,000-square-foot facility, which Hannah Kain says will lead to continued growth in Indy. When the project was first announced earlier this year, ALOM said it would increase employment by 25%.